Cannabis Deals This Week: November 03, 2026

Fourteen years before this newsletter hit your inbox, on November 6, 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington became the first people anywhere to legalize recreational cannabis by popular vote, with Colorado's Amendment 64 passing at roughly 55 percent. Governor John Hickenlooper famously urged residents not to break out the Cheetos or Goldfish too quickly, but just over a year later, on January 1, 2014, Iraq War veteran Sean Azzariti walked out of a Denver dispensary with the first legal recreational cannabis purchase in modern American history. Those two ballot victories unleashed a wave that has grown into two dozen or more state legal markets generating billions in annual sales, and every promo code and price drop in your inbox today traces back to ordinary voters checking a box. So if a cannabis measure appears on your ballot this Election Day, remember that the deal you are about to snag may have started exactly the same way.